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Business PlanLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: LMSB6400

Credits

5 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish

Responsible person

  • Jaana Auer
  • Kaisa Kinnunen

Objective

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Enrollment

20.11.2023 - 04.01.2024

Timing

14.03.2024 - 30.06.2027

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

RDI portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Face-to-face, 20 % Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
Groups
  • LMS23S1
    Maaseutuelinkeinot (AMK)

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.

Teaching methods

lessions, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Alternative completion methods

Opintojakson voit korvata esittelemällä itse tekemäsi liiketoimintasuunnitelman, joka päivitetään tarvittaessa opintojakson vaatimusten mukaiseksi.

Student workload

lessions 32 h, assignments 20 h, independent study 83 h

Content scheduling

The course starts in the first study year and ends in the fourth year. Exchange students make their business plan during their exchange period.

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Enrollment

20.11.2023 - 04.01.2024

Timing

01.01.2024 - 19.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

60 % Face-to-face, 40 % Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
Groups
  • LMS22KM
    Agrologi (AMK), maaseutuelinkeinot, monimuotototeutus

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.

Teaching methods

lessions, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Alternative completion methods

Opintojakson voit korvata esittelemällä itse tekemäsi liiketoimintasuunnitelman, joka päivitetään tarvittaessa opintojakson vaatimusten mukaiseksi.

Student workload

lessions 32 h, assignments 20 h, independent study 83 h

Content scheduling

The course starts in the first study year and ends in the fourth year. Exchange students make their business plan during their exchange period.

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Timing

30.08.2023 - 31.07.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
Groups
  • ZJA23SLNO
    Avoin amk,Luva, Nonstop, Verkko
  • ZJA23SLNO2
    Avoin amk, Luva, Nonstop 2, Verkko
  • ZJA24KLNO3
    Avoin amk, Luva, Nonstop 3, Verkko

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.
Osterwalder, A. & Pigneur, Y. 2010. Business model generation. A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. eBook.
Pigneur, Osterwalder, Smith & Bernarda. 2014. Value proposition design: how to create products and services customers want.

Teaching methods

distance learning, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Student workload

business plan 85 h, independent study 50 h. total 135 h

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Enrollment

01.11.2022 - 05.01.2023

Timing

01.01.2023 - 30.06.2026

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

60 % Face-to-face, 40 % Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
Groups
  • LMS22S1
    Maaseutuelinkeinot (AMK)

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.

Teaching methods

lessions, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Student workload

lessions 32 h, assignments 20 h, independent study 83 h

Content scheduling

The course starts in the first study year and ends in the fourth year. Exchange students make their business plan during their exchange period.

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Enrollment

01.11.2022 - 05.01.2023

Timing

01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Arto Riihinen
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
  • Aapeli Piesala
Groups
  • LMS21KM
    Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.

Teaching methods

lessions, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Student workload

lessions 32 h, assignments 20 h, independent study 83 h

Content scheduling

The course starts in the second study year and ends in the fourth year. Exchange students make their business plan during their exchange period.

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Enrollment

01.11.2021 - 09.01.2022

Timing

01.01.2022 - 30.06.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

4 op

Mode of delivery

20 % Face-to-face, 80 % Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Jaana Auer
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
Groups
  • LMS21S1
    Maaseutuelinkeinot (AMK)

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.
Osterwalder, A. & Pigneur, Y. 2010. Business model generation. A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. eBook.
Pigneur, Osterwalder, Smith & Bernarda. 2014. Value proposition design: how to create products and services customers want. eBook.

Teaching methods

lessions, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Student workload

Exchange students: assignments 80 h, independent study 55 h. Total 135 h.

Content scheduling

The course starts in the first study year and ends in the fourth year. Exchange students make their business plan during their exchange period.

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Exchange Student 5

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Enrollment

02.11.2020 - 30.11.2020

Timing

01.01.2021 - 31.05.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

60 % Face-to-face, 40 % Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Jaana Auer
  • Arto Riihinen
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
  • Aapeli Piesala
Teacher in charge

Jaana Auer

Groups
  • LMS20S1
    Maaseutuelinkeinot

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.

Teaching methods

lessions, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Student workload

lessions 32 h, assignments 20 h, independent study 83 h

Content scheduling

The course starts in the first study year and ends in the fourth year. Exchange students make their business plan during their exchange period.

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Exchange Student 5

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Enrollment

01.08.2022 - 31.05.2023

Timing

30.08.2022 - 31.07.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Jaana Auer
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
Groups
  • ZJA22SLNO1
    Avoin amk, Nonstop 1, Verkko
  • ZJA22SLNO2
    Avoin amk, Nonstop 2, Verkko
  • ZJA23KLNO3
    Avoin amk, Nonstop 3, Verkko

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.
Osterwalder, A. & Pigneur, Y. 2010. Business model generation. A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. eBook.
Pigneur, Osterwalder, Smith & Bernarda. 2014. Value proposition design: how to create products and services customers want.

Teaching methods

distance learning, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Student workload

business plan 85 h, independent study 50 h. total 135 h

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.

Timing

16.08.2021 - 31.07.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Online learning

Unit

School of Technology

Campus

Institute of Bioeconomy

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 10

Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
Teachers
  • Jaana Auer
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
Groups
  • ZJA21SLNV
    Avoin AMK, luva, Nuoren viljelijän opinnot
  • ZJA21SL
    Avoin AMK, luva

Objectives

Objectives
The possibility to fulfill your own dreams and ideas motivates you to good performance and success. On compliance of this course you have a tested and feasible business plan based on your own business idea.

Competences
Business knowledge
Entrepreneurship knowledge

Learning outcomes
Based on your own dreams, ideas and interests you have a business idea, from which during this course you plan a customer-based bioeconomy product or service and design a profitable business model. You will refine your business idea piece by piece during your study. On different courses you can do outputs that suits for your business plan, for example cropping, feeding and marketing plan, product profit and pricing calculations, plans for production technology and energy use. During the bioeconomy business piloting you can test the customer need of your business idea, make product development, experiment different methods in production processes or face some other arising challenges. In your thesis you can apply yourself to research important problems coming up from your business idea. On practical trainings you can familiarize yourself with the methods in the field of business and create networks. You make your tested business plan by putting together all the know-how you have got during your study and which is related to your business idea. For your business plan you are able to do financial plans, such as profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations.

Content

You may outline your business plan as you wish as long as all issues below are included in it one way or another. You can widen, condense or join together themes. The content of the business plan:
1. Business idea, innovation
2. Business model
3. Product or service, value proposition
4. Customers, market analysis
5. Market situation, competitors
6. Sales and marketing: customer relationship, channels, communications, pricing
7. Production: production processes, facilities, location, means of production, capital requirement, product development
8. Human resources: employees, company form, organization and management, human resource development
9. Partners and stakeholders
10. Revenues and costs, financial plan: profitability, liquidity, investment and financing calculations
11. Risks and outlines
12. Self-evaluation: your own know-how, SWOT-analysis of yourself and your business, conclusions of you business plan

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hesso, Johannes. 2015. Hyvä liiketoimintasuunnitelma. e-kirja. Jamk verkkoaineistot. Myös painettuna.
Tietoja ja palveluja yrityksille ja yrityksen perustajille. https://www.suomi.fi/yritykselle
Blackwell, Edward.2008. How to prepare a business plan.
Osterwalder, A. & Pigneur, Y. 2010. Business model generation. A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. eBook.
Pigneur, Osterwalder, Smith & Bernarda. 2014. Value proposition design: how to create products and services customers want.

Teaching methods

distance learning, assignments, creating your own business plan, independent learning

Exam dates and retake possibilities

no exam, evaluation of business plan

Student workload

business plan 85 h, independent study 50 h. total 135 h

Further information for students

Self evaluation and lecturer evaluation of business plan

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Sufficient 1: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on analyses and testing, but some of them are narrow and inadequate. You know how user oriented design and testing support business plan.

Satisfactory 2: You can do a feasible business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on adequate analyses and testing.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. You make the business plan independently.

Very good 4: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. You give your reasons for your decisions based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You can do a feasible and competitive business plan based on your own innovative business idea. Your reasons for your decisions are innovative and based on wide and versatile analyses and testing. Your conclusions are logical, strategically reasonable and convincing. You make the business plan independently and assess it critically.